Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 2 | The main interest of this church is in its interior mosaics because much of the building has been altered in later times . |
| 3 | We now shall take up an issue that has been touched on several times before : power transformation of the scale of a variable in order to make its analysis easier . |
| 4 | The increasing control of TDC by the Texas courts has been referred to several times already . |
| 5 | In addition to all this , Professor Learner has been involved at various times in university adult education , and he takes English Literature courses regularly for the Centre for Continuing Education students , usually , but not invariably , at Friends Centre in Brighton , and I am sure that like myself he is happy to see so many adults from outside the university with us tonight . |
| 6 | This centre for the elderly has been broken into four times in two years . |
| 7 | This centre for people with special needs has been broken into four times in nine days . |
| 8 | Mr Gresty , whose business has been broken into several times , said : ‘ I am extremely grateful to the Army for getting me out of a very sticky situation . ’ |
| 9 | In the last year his house has been broken into seven times , and burglars have tried to break in on at least another four occasions . |
| 10 | Our first call , Burgoynes Garage , which has been broken into three times . |
| 11 | On the building maintenance side , it has been looked at several times in the past . |
| 12 | West of the village centre are vast quarries from which granite has been taken since Roman times . |
| 13 | A Labour campaign document championed the ‘ traditional values and firm foundations of the mid-Staffordshire way of life ’ and complained that its ‘ serenity … has been shattered in recent times ’ by crime . |
| 14 | That it has been populated from prehistoric times is evidenced by the remains of neolithic buildings , mainly on Hirta , the largest island in the group . |
| 15 | The ancient Penny Hedge ceremony , which dates from feudal times and has been promoted in recent times by the English Tourist Board , takes place in Whitby tomorrow . |
| 16 | The picture has suffered from drastic cleaning operations in the past , and has been retouched at various times with oil-based paints . |
| 17 | the Licensed Software has been used at all times properly and in accordance with instructions for use as set out in the Accompanying Documentation |
| 18 | Waugh 's ‘ senile slobber ’ against Eliot — he as good as called Eliot ‘ a drunken helot ’ — has been remarked on several times , notably in his son Evelyn 's autobiography , A Little Learning . |
| 19 | Much of the research and theory which has informed our educational methodology has been superseded in recent times both in psychology and linguistics . |
| 20 | The cost of the next stage after JET has been put at five times the cost of the Culham experiment and this would suggest the need for even wider collaboration . |
| 21 | ‘ I know someone who has been put off three times for an appointment in ophthalmology . ’ |
| 22 | The cathedral has been enlarged in later times around this chapel which is now a central feature in the architectural mass ( 255 ) . |
| 23 | Similarly , residential care has been preferred at some times more than others , so until the eighteenth century in the Netherlands and Flanders the foster family was seen as the best place for orphans , foundlings , and abandoned children and has long been extensively used to care for needy children in Scotland ( Packman , 1975 ; Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Pyck et al . , |
| 24 | In fact , attention has been paid at different times , and in different initiatives , to developing financial information appropriate to each of the above levels of analysis . |
| 25 | This option must be used when an SPR has been passed on 6 times using option 3.4.0 — Accept/Reject SPR and no-one has yet taken responsibility for it . |
| 26 | These would probably have been deposited at different times , and the detailed examination of their contents will , in theory , reveal a progression of different parts of a coinage ; if one or more of these parts can be attached to an absolute date , it should be possible to estimate a date for the other parts in the progression or sequence . |
| 27 | I came to the conclusion that my hunch had been right , but that the ditches must have been dug in mid-Victorian times and the earth piled on the track , putting all the older items out of detecting range . |
| 28 | In some cases the overlay will not be completely accurate as the different maps may have been produced at different times by different teams of surveyors . |
| 29 | The Ridgeway in Wiltshire and Berkshire may well have been used in prehistoric times , but probably no more so than the line of the A4 across the same counties . |
| 30 | It is certainly true that many of the by-roads in an area such as this may well have been used in Roman times though it is difficult to prove . |